Peoples Voice (

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: PV) is a

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History

Peoples Voice was formed after

Lim Tean Lim Tean (; born 17 November 1964) is a Singaporean lawyer and politician. He is the founder of the political party Peoples Voice. He previously served as secretary-general of the National Solidarity Party from 30 August 2015 to 18 May 2017. Ea ...

resigned from the National Solidarity Party in 2017, thus stepping down from the secretary-general position as well, citing fundamental differences in approach to politics. was officially registered on 31 October 2018 with the Registry of Societies. In March 2019, Leong Sze Hian was made the PV shadow finance minister. Kok Ming Cheang is the shadow cabinet minister for health. had put forward 10 candidates to contest in the

Mountbatten Single Member Constituency The Mountbatten Single Member Constituency is a single member constituency in the central-southeastern part of Singapore. The current Member of Parliament for the constituency is Lim Biow Chuan of the People's Action Party (PAP). Town Council M ...

Jalan Besar Group Representation Constituency Jalan Besar Group Representation Constituency is a four-member Group Representation Constituency composed of several city suburbs surrounding the Central Area of Singapore. There are four wards in the GRC: Kreta Ayer-Kim Seng, Kolam Ayer, Wham ...

(GRC) and

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for the

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, which was called on 23 June 2020 with the dissolution of the

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, for the latter it was also a three-cornered contest against a third party,

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. On 10 July, the party won none of the constituencies, and their five-member team for

team had lost a combined $67,500

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(five times the deposit of $13,500 per candidate) for garnering only 12.18% of the votes, falling just 0.32% short of the one-eighth threshold (12.5%) in order to keep their deposit. In terms of the share, they got 21.26% of the votes cast on all the constituencies contested, and 2.37% based on overall popular vote.

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